Violent Belongings - Partition, Gender, and Postcolonial Nationalism in India

Informationen zum Autor Kavita Daiya is Assistant Professor of English at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Klappentext Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards in order to offer a new, historical account of how gender and ethnicity came to determine who belonged, and how, in the postcolonial Indian nation. Zusammenfassung Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards in order to offer a new, historical account of how gender and ethnicity came to determine who belonged, and how, in the postcolonial Indian nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSCHAPTER ONE: Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition and Identity in the Transnational Public SphereCHAPTER TWO: Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance and Secular CitizenshipCHAPTER THREE"A Crisis Made Flesh:" Women, Honor and National CoupledomCHAPTER FOUR"We Were Never Refugees:" Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial StateCHAPTER FIVEWar and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood CinemaCHAPTER SIXProvincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the DiasporaCONCLUSIONBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

Product details

• Authors: Kavita Daiya
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2008
• EAN: 9781592137435
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-743-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Indien, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Ethnic Studies, Regionalstudien